The WordPress coreCoreCore is the set of software required to run WordPress. The Core Development Team builds WordPress. development team builds WordPress! Follow this site for general updates, status reports, and the occasional code debate. There’s lots of ways to contribute:
Found a bugbugA bug is an error or unexpected result. Performance improvements, code optimization, and are considered enhancements, not defects. After feature freeze, only bugs are dealt with, with regressions (adverse changes from the previous version) being the highest priority.?Create a ticket in the bug tracker.
Since WordPress 6.8 on April 2025, contributors have kept a close eye on incoming reports to the WordPress.orgWordPress.orgThe community site where WordPress code is created and shared by the users. This is where you can download the source code for WordPress core, plugins and themes as well as the central location for community conversations and organization. https://wordpress.org/ Support Forums, TracTracAn open source project by Edgewall Software that serves as a bug tracker and project management tool for WordPress., and the GutenbergGutenbergThe Gutenberg project is the new Editor Interface for WordPress. The editor improves the process and experience of creating new content, making writing rich content much simpler. It uses ‘blocks’ to add richness rather than shortcodes, custom HTML etc. https://wordpress.org/gutenberg/ repository on GitHubGitHubGitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull request’ where code changes done in branches by contributors can be reviewed and discussed before being merged be the repository owner. https://github.com/. There are currently a handful of tickets planned for 6.8.2.
Specific times for RCrelease candidateOne of the final stages in the version release cycle, this version signals the potential to be a final release to the public. Also see alpha (beta). and General release will be announced in the 6.8 Release Leads room and will be based on availability of individuals helping with the release.
Targeted Fixes
One ticketticketCreated for both bug reports and feature development on the bug tracker. has high priority:
WordPress 6.8.2 is intended to be mainly focused on bugfixes introduced in 6.8, but some other bugs may be fixed in this release, depending on how self contained and straightforward the related changes are, and how confident are committers to ship these changes within a minor releaseMinor ReleaseA set of releases or versions having the same minor version number may be collectively referred to as .x , for example version 5.2.x to refer to versions 5.2, 5.2.1, 5.2.3, and all other versions in the 5.2 (five dot two) branch of that software. Minor Releases often make improvements to existing features and functionality..
Get Involved with 6.8.2
Bug Scrubs will happen in the #core Slack channel during the times posted above. Everyone is welcome to attend these sessions to help moving milestoned tickets towards a resolution. Each of the open tickets is going to require development work along with testing and review.
You can also run your own scrubs to help ensure that all of the correct tickets are fixed in this release. If you plan to run a 6.8.2 focused scrub, please get in touch with @audrasjb, @zunaid321 or @estelaris so it can be added to the release schedule.
General coordination for the release will happen in the #6-8-release-leads channel and decisions around code for the release will be made in the #core room.
